Presentation: CloudFlare's fourth year of using Go

CloudFlare has been using Go since 2011 and what started on a single project has spread throughout the engineering organization. This talk will look at the spread of Go inside CloudFlare and where it was most useful. The talk will look at the types of projects Go is good for and the challenges of writing, maintaining and optimizing Go programs that are expected to be fast, reliable and used by almost everyone on the Internet.

Speaker: John Graham-Cumming

Writer of the award-winning open source POPFile email program

John Graham-Cumming is a wandering programmer who's lived in the UK, California, New York and France. Along the way he's worked for a succession of technology start-ups, written the award-winning open source POPFile email program and churned out articles for publications such as The Guardian newspaper, Dr Dobbs, and Linux Magazine. His first effort writing a book was the obscure and self-published computer manual GNU Make Unleashed which saturated its target market of 100 readers. Because he has a doctorate in computer security he's deeply suspicious of people who insist on being called Dr., but doesn't mind if you refer to him as a geek. He is the proud owner of a three-letter domain name where he hosts his web site: http://www.jgc.org.